The Olympic Media dossier  1896: Athens   

6-15 April
Cinematograph shooting and screenings had been spreading across Europe rapidly during the months before the first modern Games.
        We have so far found no record of any film being made at the 1896 Games, although a photograph of a medals ceremony includes two cameras in the lower middle distance: one is clearly a whole-plate stills camera with cloth over it. But could the other [circled] be a typical box-like film camera of the period?

 1900: Paris   

14 May-28 October
Some events were filmed, including the victory of Charlotte Cooper, five times Wimbledon champion, in the women's tennis final. She was the first female Olympic champion. Etienne Jules Marey took sequence images with his Chronophotographe.

 1904: St Louis   

1 July-23 November

 1908: London   

 

 1912: Paris   

 

 1920: Antwerp   

The opening ceremony was filmed for newsreel purposes.